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We are in a war!

Our strength, our effectiveness, in spiritual warfare is no greater than our ability to control our thoughts.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Corinthians chapter 10:

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

The way a war is won is through relationship and trust through obedience.

The word horn often refers to strength, authority, and power.  The number four often refers to the earth, i.e. The four corners of the earth: North, South,  East, West.

It is recorded by The Holy Spirit in Zechariah chapter 1:

18 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns.

19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” So he answered me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

The four horns influencing the earth is a global demonstration of demonic power that enslaves people in wrong thinking.  Their mindsets are focused on the world’s narrative.

20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

21 And I said, “What are these coming to do?” So he said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head (because of their affliction); but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

When at war, we are to create as skilled workers!

The purpose of the four horns was to scatter the people so that they could no longer lift their heads.  When people have been scattered, they cannot be in unity.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 10:

25 This is not the time to pull away and neglect meeting together, as some have formed the habit of doing. In fact, we should come together even more frequently, eager to encourage and urge each other onward as we anticipate that day (of  Christ’s return) dawning.

We should assemble with true believers so that we can enter into unity and build each other up in Christ.  This is what serving others is all about.

As you see things intensifying on the earth, do what is not natural for you, go against the grain and fight to be together in unity.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 12:

4 In the human body there are many parts and organs, each with a unique function. 5 And so it is in the body of Christ. For though we are many, we’ve all been mingled into one body in Christ. This means that we are all vitally joined to one another, with each contributing to the others.

6 God’s marvelous grace imparts to each one of us varying gifts. So if God has given you the grace-gift of prophecy, activate your gift by using the proportion of faith you have to prophesy.

7 If your grace-gift is serving, then thrive in serving others well. If you have the grace-gift of teaching, then be actively teaching and training others.

8 If you have the grace-gift of encouragement, then use it often to encourage others. If you have the grace-gift of giving to meet the needs of others, then may you prosper in your generosity without any fanfare. If you have the gift of leadership, be passionate about your leadership. And if you have the gift of showing compassion, then flourish in your cheerful display of compassion.

Notice that we are to serve and bless others with our individual spiritual gifts.  How can you bless others if you never assemble together?

Craftsmen are those with specific gifts to create.  Let each of us bless others through the gifts and callings given to us by FATHER.  This will allow those who have been unable to lift their heads, to rise up and be encouraged!  Their war is in their mindset, and we should redirect their thinking to what The Word of THE LORD says.

Do you walk in The Fear of THE LORD?

How would you like for an angel of THE LORD to encamp around you?

King David recorded by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 34:

7 The angel of YAHWEH stooped down to listen as I prayed, encircling me, empowering me, and showing me how to escape. He will do this for everyone who fears God.

8 Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God. Experience for yourself the joyous mercies He gives to all who turn to hide themselves in Him.

9 Worship in awe and wonder, all you who’ve been made Holy! For all who fear Him will feast with plenty.

10 Even the strong and the wealthy grow weak and hungry, but those who passionately pursue the Lord will never lack any good thing.

Are you in lack?  Take heed to the Words given to us by The Holy Spirit through King David.

11 Come, children of God, and listen to me. I’ll share the lesson I’ve learned of Fearing the Lord:

Are you willing to learn something that has rarely been taught by the church these days?

12-13 Do you want to live a long, good life, enjoying the beauty that fills each day? Then never speak a lie or allow wicked words to come from your mouth.

14 Keep turning your back on every sin, and make “peace” your life motto. Practice being at peace with everyone.

15 The Lord sees all we do; He watches over His friends day and night. His Godly ones receive the answers they seek whenever they cry out to Him.

Walking in the Fear of THE LORD is a daily reality for those who embrace the above Truth.  This walk does not guarantee that the adversary will not attempt to challenge you, but you will be walking in full protection of the angel of THE LORD.  You will escape from those who wish to harm you.

You will be blessed with FATHER’S resources of plenty.  As well, you will live a long life enjoying each day.  What a promise!

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 111:

10 The Fear of the LORD is the beginning of Wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.

Heeding this verse is essential if you want to achieve full maturing as a Son of Daughter of GOD!  We are now in the midst of a great movement of GOD and those who truly walk in the Fear of THE LORD will by HIS Vessels of Honor to initiate this move of The Holy Spirit throughout the earth. 

You can choose to participate or simply be an onlooker, it’s your choice.  In order to participate, you must embrace and walk in the Fear of THE LORD.  The Fear of THE LORD is the beginning of the final path toward full maturity.

Wisdom will give you access to the unlimited riches of Heaven, but first, you must embrace and walk in The Awe of GOD!

Jesus walked on earth as a man in complete humanity, not as GOD!

Jesus was our Perfect Example because He took on all the attributes of flesh and blood and left His Heavenly position for our benefit.

The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 13:

1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having Loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him,

3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

Jesus was well aware of His relationship with FATHER during His earthly ministry.

Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 22:

39 Jesus left the upper room with his disciples and, as was his Habit, went to the Mount of Olives, His place of secret prayer.

40 There He told the apostles, “Keep praying for strength to be spared from the severe test of your faith that is about to come.”

41 Then He withdrew from them a short distance to be alone. Kneeling down, he prayed,

42 “Father, if You are willing, take this cup of agony away from Me. But no matter what, Your Will must be Mine.”

43 Jesus called for an angel of glory to strengthen Him, and the angel appeared.

44 He prayed even more passionately, like one being sacrificed, until He was in such intense agony of Spirit that His sweat became drops of blood, dripping onto the ground.

45 When Jesus finished praying, He got up and went to His disciples and found them all asleep, for they were exhausted and overwhelmed with sorrow.

46 “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “You need to be alert and pray for the strength to endure the great temptation.”

Since Jesus came in human form, He had to pray just like you and me.  If He was walking as GOD, he would not need to be strengthened by an angel.  He was tempted by the devil just like us.

Our whole sense of identity and purpose is gained by our understanding that Jesus was totally subject to the same issues we deal with on a daily basis.  This is why He is the Perfect Example to follow and allows us to mature in the same manner.

We should have no doubt about being able to fulfill His commands.  His Example is meant to change the way we perceive Life, and we are to adjust our mindsets and expectations to walk as He walked, trusting in and relying on FATHER.  We are to walk in His identity with a whole sense of purpose and destiny.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Jeremiah chapter 24:

6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

7 Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

FATHER has given you and me a heart to know HIM and be a Son of Daughter belonging to HIM.  As we know HIM, we will realize, become aware, that HE has unlimited resources available to us in the same manner as Jesus Who accessed those resources.  Jesus turned water into wine, multiplied loaves and fishes to meet the needs of the multitudes, healed the sick, raised the dead, acquired money for taxes… 

We have access to those same resources as we accept Jesus as our realistic Example.  Jesus never suffered lack in His walk.  Jesus was connected to a world that has absolutely no lack but one of extreme abundance.

Return to the above passage:

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His Hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

Jesus knew that He had access to unlimited resources, all things.  As a Son, He had access to FATHER’S Kingdom.

Jesus spoke in John chapter 16:

15 Everything that belongs to the Father belongs to Me—that’s why I say that the Divine Encourager will receive what is Mine and reveal it to you.

We are not meant to be onlookers but rather be partakers in bringing forth The Kingdom of GOD in like manner to that of Jesus.  As we are led by The Holy Spirit, the unlimited resources will be fully revealed for our use.

Hebrews 4:15 NKJV
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

All who live righteously will suffer persecution!

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Timothy chapter 3:

10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, Love, perseverance,

11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra-what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

12 Yes, and all who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Both righteousness and ungodliness will increase.  The ungodly will persecute us because our light exposes their darkness, and we make them feel uncomfortable.  They will attempt to deceive those who are susceptible to such false narratives.  You and I must be unwilling to submit to such deceptions.

16 God has transmitted His very substance into every Scripture, for it is God-breathed. It will empower you by Its instruction and correction, giving you the strength to take the right direction and lead you deeper into the path of Godliness. 17 Then you will be God’s servant, fully mature and perfectly prepared to fulfill any assignment God gives you.

Our trust must be on both the written Word of GOD as well as the spoken Word of GOD.  HIS power and authority are contained in every Word.

Jesus is perfect and He suffered persecution thus we should expect the same as we live righteously.  There is conflict and opposition from those who are ungodly.

Paul provides us with a list:

1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the Truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;

9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

We must heed the Words given to us by The Holy Spirit.  Our focus must be on spiritual maturity so that we can handle the fiery darts of the devil.  He will look for any weakness in us to exploit.  We must focus daily on The Word so that we fulfill the prayer given to us by The Holy Spirit, written by Paul in Colossians chapter 1:

9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His Will in all Wisdom and Spiritual understanding;

10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 strengthened with all might, according to His Glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;

12 giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His Love,

14 in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Are you willing to sacrifice all for Him along with persecution?

Jesus spoke in Mark chapter 10:

29 “Listen to my Words,” Jesus said. “Anyone who leaves his home behind and chooses Me over children, parents, family, and possessions, all for the sake of the gospel,

30 it will come back to him a hundred times as much in this lifetime—homes, family, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, possessions—along with persecutions. And in the age to come, he will inherit Eternal life.

31 But many who are considered to be the most important now will be the least important then. And many who are viewed as the least important now will be considered the most important then.”

The will be opposition to your progress… count on it.

We must not look back to the past!

The battleground of the enemy is over our mind… our thought life.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 6:

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with Truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace;

16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. [

7 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;

FATHER uses your obedience to shame the powers of darkness.  Victory comes through us by The Holy Spirit operating in our lives.

Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4:

13 Jesus answered, “If you drink from Jacob’s well, you’ll be thirsty again,

14 but if anyone drinks the Living Water I give them, they will never be thirsty again. For when you drink the Water I give you, It becomes a gushing Fountain of the Holy Spirit, flooding you with Endless Life!”

The Holy Spirit in us will bring forth endless Life to those who drink.  The adversary cannot stop this flow.

23-24 From now on, worshiping the Father will not be a matter of the right place but with a right heart. For God is a Spirit, and He longs to have sincere worshipers Who adore Him in the realm of the Spirit and in Truth.”

We are to trust in the Word of GOD only which is absolute Truth.  Anything else promotes a lie and we must not let such lies impede our progress toward maturity in Christ.

We must not allow the enemy to occupy our minds, our thought life.  Do you think that the enemy tried to keep Paul focusing on his past when he was an enemy of Christ, persecuting Christian?

He wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Corinthians chapter 10:

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

Be assured that Paul had to bring every thought into captivity himself.

Your purpose that you have yet to enter into, is occupied by a lie.  The enemy will attempt to raise up a stronghold against your purpose to make you think it is impossible for you to fulfill that aspect of your purpose.  Else, you would already be in it.

The adversary will attempt to use your past failures to convince you that you are not worthy to enter into your promise given by FATHER.  The Promised Land is a picture of us coming into the fullness of GOD’S Intent and purpose for our lives.

Jesus expects us to do greater works than Him.  We can’t do greater works until we have done the same works.  Strongholds built on lies must be taken down.  Jesus is drawing us into a possibility through promise.

Paul spoke to Timothy this vital Truth as he recorded by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Timothy chapter 1:

18-19 So Timothy, my son, I am entrusting you with this responsibility, in keeping with the very first prophecies that were spoken over your life, and are now in the process of fulfillment in this great work of ministry, in keeping with the prophecies spoken over you. With this encouragement use your prophecies as weapons as you wage spiritual warfare by faith and with a clean conscience. For there are many who reject these virtues and are now destitute of the True faith,

We all have been given promises through the Word of GOD that are yet to be fulfilled.  We wage spiritual warfare by faith for these promises to manifest in our lives.  A clean conscience is vital.  The enemy wants to dredge up your past so that you will perceive that you don’t have a clean conscience.  That is a lie.